bit.ly scares the shit out of me

hey guys, haven’t “figured out how to twitter yet,” but I was reading something on this facebook group (and this group, and this group, and this event, and this page) about link shortenings being totally evil. If your website is something.ly that means you are endorsing Libya, which is wrong and gross.

did you know that qaddafi had a “green book,” similar to mao zedong’s “red book?” Mao Zedong killed 800 million people.

so try another url shortening if you are on twitter, like tinyurl.com or is.gd. who knows what this one will do and who’s “gaining control of your tweets.”

is birthright a prostitution ring?

hey you guys. back in the day (ca 2007) when i attended birthright it seemed like a pretty chill organization. just welcoming Jews home, y’know, because it’s our right.

i have to say i had one of the most memorable experiences of my life on that trip. I even went on facebook and scanned in all the pictures from my time there. found the official “birthright 2007” facebook group and reminisced with some of my old buddies about the CRAYZY times we had. it seems s00000 long ago..

seems like right after we got off the plane when we were greeted by a bunch of hot military boys and girls who invited us to their family’s moshav. that night we were smoking weed out in the middle of a beautiful field and giggling as we tried to learn some more hebrew words. i think someone had a guitar. it was the first time I had ever smoked weed before so I felt kind of “vulnerable,” but in a good way. i hadn’t even gotten over my jet lag!!!

since then i’ve been “temple shopping” in brooklyn and trying to find a way to get back to ha’aretz. birthright was free and now i don’t have the money to go back (via PT admin asst./freelance graphic design job). so now I’m kind of embittered and sad because i’m not sure if I want to make aliyah but i really want to go again.

ANYWAYYY the whole thing is starting to piss me off and now when I see those birthright ads in the bronfman center all of the girls in them look like whores. am i just jealous you guys?

…which made me start to wonder.. seems like all their imagery is of pretty girls beckoning you to their holy land or something. (h8 objectification of women!!!!) is israel intentionally sexualizing its fair-skinned female population to exploit for tourism/investment/settling in the west bank with a sex slave? or is the whole thing just an international trafficking front for a much larger prostitution ring?

even found this mainstream video from the israeli tourism ministry or something to prove my point

wink and a nod / my ass

just wondering about birthright you guys

they’re trying to drive us into the sea.

been feeling less and less safe in the city. don’t even venture down to the sugar factory park since there’s always police lights flashing. an art-schooly yeshiva girl got raped just down the block from where I live. all of her special pencils were scattered everywhere.

as i’m sure you’re aware, anti-semitism is on the rise in America. just feels like i CAN’T. GET. AIR. this would all have been fine for me before because I’ve always thought of Israel as my home, or a safe place for Jews from Dubuque like me when renewed hatred for Jews arises (and don’t think it won’t!).

seriously, after my birthright trip 2 years ago, I feel like Israel is my home away from home. but now Israel feels more imperiled than ever. it really is true what Bibi says: they are trying to drive us into the sea.

this morning there was such a long line for coffee and I got splashed by gross water from a bus driving through a puddle of water on kent st., and my one flicker of Hope has gone out. our very future as a people is at stake.